Weceem 0.3 released

www.weceem.org

October 12, 2009

The Weceem team is pleased to announce the release of version 0.3 of the Weceem CMS written entirely with the Grails framework.

Weceem is a CMS that can operate as a standalone application or as a plugin in your own Grails applications. It has an intuitive content model that leverages Grails ORM for persistence.

The Weceem team is pleased to welcome Scott Burch (SimpleCMS plugin) and Dave Cherry (ContentManager plugin), who have decided to join our efforts to provide a single Grails-based CMS platform.

What's new in version 0.3

The focus of this release has been to improve the administration UI to support the basic requirements of creating websites and to enhance the system based the feedback we got so far.

New features included in this release:

Spaces now have an aliasURI property to support control of the URI needed to access the space, so you can control what is served at '/'
New content types: JavaScript and Folder
Initial support for Blogs, BlogEntry and Comment. First template with Blog support. Not ready for production yet.
Improved content repository tree UI, with drag'n drop to order nodes and also search/filtering
New tags for menus and navigation: menu tag to support CSS/Javascript menus and breadcrumb tag
Newly created spaces are populated with a "best practice" example space
New tags for use in layouts and widgets: countChildren, ifUserCanEdit, ifContentIs, ifContentIsNot and more
Pages now inherit their Template from their ancestors

Many Improvements including:

Site URLs no longer contain ?space= variable
Support for Widgets rendering other nested Widgets
Fixes and improvements to import/export handling
Integration points for a fine grained security model
JNDI Datasource support (jdbc/WeceemDS) if you set the DataSource jndiName in weceem.properties
Application has renamed User and Role tables to be compatible with postgres
Configurable search index filesystem path
and 50 tickets more..

Version 0.3 is already used in some production websites. Whether or not you tried a previous version, it is time to check the latest release of Weceem. We are waiting for your feedback!

The Weceem team

Stephan Albers, http://www.jcatalog.com
Scott Burch, http://www.smartwebsystems.biz
David Cherry, http://www.thecoderscorner.com
Viktor Fedorov, http://www.jcatalog.com
Marc Palmer, http://www.anyware.co.uk